Exhibition
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Risquons-Tout is an ambitious, thematic group exhibition that explores the potential of transgression and unpredictability. It examines how art challenges the homogenisation of thought in the now infamous echo chambers of our overcrowded info-sphere.
Risquons-Tout presents some of the most innovative and influential artists and authors from the Eurocore region, which extends between Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Düsseldorf and London, with Brussels at its centre. The title is borrowed from a place located on the Belgian-French border, a real yet liminal space of transition, passage and informal exchanges, notably smuggling. The invited artists negotiate different dynamics of bridging, passing, translating and transgressing. In doing so they burst the safe bubbles generated by prediction algorithms, designed to avoid any risk, whether intellectual, financial, emotional or physical. The exhibition’s geographic and political scope addresses today’s global connectivity, trans-national circulation and diasporic movements.
Risquons-Tout will occupy the entire WIELS building and range out into neighbouring exhibition and performance spaces. It will present the works of 38 internationally recognised or emerging artists. The exhibition proposes a rich array of practices that defy easy categorisation. Risquons-Tout will also include a performative section and an Open School that will serve as a laboratory for artists and scholars to draw upon questions of risk, unpredictability and borders through a range of alternative methods for the transmission of knowledge.
Artists
Ed Atkins, Neïl Beloufa, Manon de Boer & Latifa Laâbissi, Peter Buggenhout, CATPC / Irene Kanga, Julien Creuzet, Shezad Dawood, Jean D.L., Lise Duclaux, Esther Ferrer, Jef Geys, Manuel Graf, Kati Heck, Lubaina Himid & Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Heide Hinrichs, Isaac Julien, Melike Kara, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Suchan Kinoshita, Tarek Lakhrissi, Ghislaine Leung, Bernd Lohaus, Christian Nyampeta, Sophie Nys, Lydia Ourahmane & Alex Ayed, Panamarenko, Laure Prouvost, Sina Seifee, Philippe Van Snick, Mounira Al Solh, Monika Stricker, Sturtevant, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Nora Turato, Evelyn Taocheng Wang.
With interventions and performances by Ed Atkins (UK), Manon De Boer (IN/NL/BE) & Latifa Laâbissi (FR), Jean De Lacoste (BE), Cherish Menzo (NL), Christian Nyampeta (UK/RW/NL), Laure Prouvost (FR/BE), Mounira Al Solh (LB/NL), Nora Turato (HR/NL) and Tarek Lakhrissi (FR).
This project was made possible by the generous support of the Willame Foundation and the WIELS patrons. The exhibition is supported by IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Goethe Institut, the Spanish Embassy, the French Embassy, Mondriaan Fonds, Henry Moore Foundation, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, the Dutch Embassy, the Embassy of Spain in Belgium and ProHelvetia.
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